I XXV THE WIND SAW you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, I saw the different things you did, O wind, a-blowing all day long, O you that are so strong and cold, O wind, a-blowing all day long, XXVI KEEPSAKE MILL Ο VER the borders, a sin without pardon, Breaking the branches and crawling below, Out through the breach in the wall of the garden, Down by the banks of the river, we go. Here is the mill with the humming of thunder, Here is the weir with the wonder of foam, Here is the sluice with the race running underMarvellous places, though handy to home! Sounds of the village grow stiller and stiller, Years may go by, and the wheel in the river KEEPSAKE mill Home from the Indies and home from the ocean, Heroes and soldiers we all shall come home ; Still we shall find the old mill wheel in motion, Turning and churning that river to foam. You with the bean that I gave when we quarrelled, 31 XXVII GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN HILDREN, you are very little, CHI And your bones are very brittle; If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately. You must still be bright and quiet, Happy hearts and happy faces, But the unkind and the unruly, |